"The millions of American travelers who are utterly insouciant to a high-tech scan or even a pat-down are ignored. The other day, a CBS News poll found that 81 percent of Americans approve of the use of the high-tech machines at airports, but that means nothing to Drudge. How many more Americans would welcome a soothing pat-down midst the hurly-burly of travel at our nation's stress-filled airports I do not know, but count me in -- especially if the patter-downer is a cute little number on the order of, say, Sarah Palin."

No, you bootlicking sycophant. Your crotch will be grabbed by a guy. And if you'll accept having your crotch grabbed by a government agent, you might as well move straight to Cuba. Though in defense of the Cubans, I doubt if even they would try a stunt like this. Even totalitarians have their limits.

By the way, note how Tyrrell also mangles the language in trying to impress. You can't be insouciant to something. "Insouciant" is derived from the French and means "unworried." One can be unworried about something, but not to something.

So Tyrrell is as bad a writer as he is a thinker.

But it's nice to see the neocon mind at work. If you truly believe, as these guys do, in a liberal internationalist foreign policy that involves the United States in endless nation-building exercises overseas, then why adopt conservative policies at home? If the feds can run Baghdad and Kabul, why can't they run their hands up your thighs here in the U.S.?

While you're checking that out, click on another neocon idiocy, Victor Davis Hanson's defense of George W. Bush:

There was the same obsession with, but misreading of, Bush in foreign affairs. The public was turned off by the violence and costs in Iraq -- but otherwise not especially concerned about Bush's largely traditional foreign policy or his anti-terrorism protocols.

Has anyone ever made more mistakes in military analysis than the Banana Slug Chicken Hawk? Click on this link to read my trenchant analysis of Hansen's total misreading of the Iraq War.

Hanson is perhaps the leading proponent of the single stupidest misconception in recent times, the idea that asymmetrical wars such as Iraq and Afghanistan have anything whatsoever in common with symmetrical wars such as World War II.

Anyone who compares the so-called "War on Terror" to World War II, or in Hanson's case the Peloponnesian Wars, is totally ignorant of how the world works.

Those of us who have experience watching counterinsurgencies up close recognize what Ronald Reagan recognized: If you're going to get involved in an assymmetrical war, back the side that puts in the least resources, not the most. That's how Reagan ousted the commies in both Nicaragua and Afghanistan (only to see the latter victory squandered by yet another President Bush, but that's another story).

Now Hanson is talking about George W. Bush's "largely traditional" foreign policy? The only tradition Bush followed was the bungling of such Democratic presidents as Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson. It's the Democrats who traditionally get us bogged down in foreign adventures they don't understand. Republicans have traditionally opposed everything the neocons ever stood for, as Ron Paul has been reminding us for years now. The two Bushes were of course liberal internationalists who fit better within the Democratic tradition, as Pat Buchanan has been noting since the first Iraq War.

And as for George W. Bush's "antiterrorism protocols," every red-blooded American I know has been angry for years at the refusal of the feds to profile passengers. We right-wingers all despise the way the TSA has been harassing little girls and grannies ever since Bush created that bureaucracy.

Not all the Townhall writers are this bad, but most suffer from a worship of big government that is entirely obsolete in the Obama era.

Nonetheless we conservatives can thanks Tyrrell for offering perhaps the best glimpse yet into the mind of that statist suck-up known as a "neo" conservative. As I've noted in the past, the obsession these guys have with fighting Islamo "fascism" - a term created by an unapologetic Trotskyite - reveals the essentially left-wing nature of their belief system. All of these guys believe the U.S. government should use its armed forces to "liberate" foreigners - without realizing that once liberated these foreigners are going to do things like suppress Christianity, as is now occurring in Iraq.

But I don't think Tyrrell has to worry about getting groped at an airport. How will the TSA agent be able to reach his crotch when Tyrrell's busy kissing the guy's ass?